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ARHS 494A: Seminar in Art History
Great Universal Expositions
of the
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Fall Semester 2009
CRN# 86828
Time: T: 3:30-6:00
For more information contact: Dr. Rhonda Reymond
[email protected]
This course will examine several universal expositions that took place in England, France, and
the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These exhibitions – part
architectural display, part trade show, part art exhibition, part demonstration of national
strength – drew crowds from all over the world to participate in what was often a spectacular
display of imperialist and industrialist power. The architectural, artistic and engineering
innovations produced in and around the exhibitions will be addressed keeping in mind the
economic, cultural and political aspects of globalization. Some of the Expositions that will be
discussed are the:
•Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, London 1851 (Crystal Palace)
•Expositions Universelles, Paris 1855 (and Courbet's Pavilion of Realism response)
•Expositions Universelles, Paris 1867 (and Manet’s alternative venue response)
•United States Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia 1876
• Exposition Universelle, Paris 1889
•World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago 1893
•Exposition Universelle, Paris 1900
•Pan-American Exposition Buffalo, New York, 1901
•Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco 1915
•Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes Paris 1925
•New York World's Fair, 1939-1940.